We have forgotten the art of impeccability as a spiritual tool and we suffer mightily from it.

Without the practice of impeccability we never realize what it is to reach our full potential – the code for which we carry in our cellular DNA – we never know the full extent of the unique and creative selves we came to express.

Instead we settle for mediocre lives. We get by. We do what we have to do. And we wonder why we are so dissatisfied or disappointed with life.

Why not make this moment an act of impeccability? Whatever you are doing, give it your full attention. Set the intention to complete the task with precision and excellence, whether it’s chopping vegetables or cleaning the tub… Whether it’s speaking to a friend or caring for a relative. Go beyond what is expected – not to impress them (though it will! 😉) but FOR your own spiritual development!

Make it your habit to rise to your best no matter how great or small the task that is placed before you. Even if the task is an unpleasant one! Especially then!

Allow the practice of impeccability to be a tool for your refinement, shaping you, through its practice, into being the full realization of your own Highest and Best Self.

Wow! 2016 has been a powerful year, hasn’t it? Extremes have prevailed! Terrible things have happened in our community in the last year – tragedy seems to have become a frequent visitor in our world. Just last week, a police officer was needlessly shot in Chattanooga. In addition, we went through the worst drought since 1904, culminating in forest fires that burned thousands of acres, not to mention the devastating fire in Gatlinburg which took lives of animals and humans.

In our community we have gone from feeling an almost smug sense of security to being on constant alert; it seems to be increasingly difficult to trust that our children are safe, even on the school bus, as attested by the horrific bus accident that took the lives of six precious students on their way home from Woodmore Elementary School.

We are discovering that we are not immune to the turmoil and chaos in the world. Uncertainty, and the inability to control outcomes has never seemed more apparent. We are being asked to exist in a Reality that, at times, seems difficult, even impossible, to accept.

In times like these, we have only one place to turn for inner peace. We can no longer fall for the illusion that we are going to be able to tuck ourselves into a safe cocoon and sit out the storm. No, the storm appears to have moved just outside our door. It is far-reaching and life-shaking. Death is a possibility for any of us at any moment. This has always been true, of course, but most of us have been able to buffer ourselves from having to face that possibility. No longer.

The one place we can turn for consolation and peace is to our Universal Creator Source, and to the Universal Law upon which this world operates. Belief in a Higher Power that protects, governs, and guides us is the only chance we have of transcending this time of woe.

It’s only through my daily practice that I am able to recognize and open to the abundance that is the other extreme of all the aforementioned darkness. Turning our focus from the awful to gratitude instead is the practice we must all strengthen, if we are to find peace in the midst of so much chaos. And truly, there IS so much for which to be grateful. The practice is to build the habit of looking up, even in times when we are most down.

My daily practice is where I look up during my difficult times, and doing so has greatly matured my understanding of life. The fear and sadness of life has forced me to rely even more on Source and Universal Guidance to light my way. As my trust in Source grows, I become even more willing to hear and do what the Inner Voice says. I continue to be amazed, and deeply, beyond my ability to express, blown away by the precision by which the details of even my smallest daily matters are handled when I am looking up – sometimes it appears as though the way was prepared months, even years, before my moment of need, as if it were arranged and waiting for the very moment it was to be made useful. Isn’t that amazing?!

The Law of Mind: Cause and Effect: There are no accidents. The body we have is the one created for us for the duration of our life journey on Planet Earth. It is perfect for its mission, regardless of how we perceive it. It is designed to bring the challenges it does for the purpose of reflecting our own belief system to us and to refine consciousness.

The Law of Vibration: The body is a transmitter/receiver. It is a conductor of vibrational energy that resonates at a frequency which matches the beliefs we have chosen, and with which we identify.

The Law of Polarity: Our bodies naturally know how to find and maintain structural alignment. Negative vibrational frequency, such as fear based beliefs disrupt and destroy natural alignment and throw us into a toxic state. When we arephysically aligned, homeostasis is established, returning us to a state of health, balance, and inner peace.

The Law of Cycles: The body is in a constant state of change, cycling up into a higher frequency alignment, or down into death and decay; it’s either breaking through to greater strengths or collapsing into weaker form, all dependent upon our mental attitude towards it. The body can rejuvenate itself in miraculous ways, especially when we hear, respect, and take seriously its messages to us.

The Law of Reflection: The body reflects our core beliefs about ourselves and others. It is the mind’s first mirror, showing us where we stand in this moment in our relationship with ourselves and the world.

The Law of Equilibrium: The body reflects the emotional and mental patterns which dictates how we perceive and receive the world around us. This trio (mental, emotional, physical) in balance forms the perfect vehicle for transforming consciousness into a higher state of expression.

The Law of Verification: Whatever we believe about our body will become physically manifest, and will also determine how we see, feel and respond to life. The story we wear, how we move and physically express are influenced by the thoughts we believe about ourselves.

The Law of Projection: We judge in others what we despise and reject about our own body. We can use these judgmental projections as tools to free the physical body from similar painful patterns of our own.

The Law of Intention: What we focus on gets bigger. When we see problems with our body, the body becomes problematic. We can choose to envision the body as our vehicle for transformation, and it will deliver us to health and freedom.

The Law of Alignment: Aligning physically opens energetic pathways that bring us health, vitality, and clarity. Alignment clears us from toxic states and blockages so that the Flow of Consciousness can move freely through us.

Every morning now, since December 16, 2006, I’ve been meeting and “dancing” with my Inner Beloved. Eight years of committed loyalty to my One True Love – but who’s counting? 😉

I go to my mat in the early morning hours, arising often while it is still dark. In winter, I stumble in to my “inner sanctuary” (a room set aside) finding it warm already, and replete with candles, music, and inspirational words ready to be savored … In warmer months, our pond Stage beckons … Out the door, it’s just a short walk through the morning dew to the safe-haven offered there. A work of art on the ground, the water stage was conceived and visualized by my son, Andrew, and Daniel, and built by our boys and Daniel on our small spring-fed pond. It has become an instrumental part of the magic of our home.

Mornings alone with Source are my lesson time – I sit at the feet of the Master, and absorb what I can of the immensity poured into me during those moments of communion. The more I focus on hearing, the more vivid are the downloads given. So many realizations, wisdoms uncovered, occur during these moments, I wonder that I was ever resistant to these intimate encounters – why would anyone resist such re-union?

I’ve learned so much about the physical body, for instance, and how right physical alignment facilitates emotional and mental alignment, and ultimately alignment with Source. Experimenting with that cognition in my personal practice has cultivated a palpable relationship between my Self and the Field of Living Energy that, I have come to see, every living creature “swims in,” and is supported by … I say, “swims in” because, we humans, much like a fish swimming in water, draw our life support directly from the medium in which we exist. Surrounded by a Universal Life Source or Energy that wraps around us like breath, closer to us than our own skin … we are nurtured, and fed constantly.

Sometimes the downloads I receive during my private times with Source are mental images that, in transcribing, might take pages of explanation, but was dropped in an instant of understanding. Sometimes I see with sudden clarity a situation that was challenging or difficult to resolve, and new direction is possible. Radical concepts, at least to me, and new ways of seeing the world drop in as if I’d known them all along – and my own awareness increases (minus the need to browbeat myself for it) of how easily I fall under the spell of the victim ego, hypnotized by a victim mind into seeing a painful world that has nothing to do with Reality AT ALL!

I think this is what it is to “awaken,” for indeed it is like opening one’s eyes after a long sleep, or a deep trance, and being met with the sight of a bright and radiant new world. And here’s the thing … it’s already here. It’s not some place one must buy a ticket to go to … it’s an inner place that has been here all along – visible only to those with the eyes to see. Such eyes have been granted me.

As I continue this process, not for the exercise it provides, nor any sense of “holiness” it might give, not for my health, (although it offers benefits in all of these areas), but purely for the connection and the opportunity to dialog with the Master, at whose feet I sit. This Living Intelligence responds when I ask, inhabits me when I permit, and heals absolutely when I believe. And in letting the Creator Flow have its Way with me, I have become a new being.

Physically, for instance, my body has changed – not only in form, and shape – but I notice enhanced receptivity, flexibility, abilities, and a quick response that surprises even me, at times – in addition I notice an increase in intuition and sensitivity to energies around me. It’s as if through these intimate moments with Source I have become a partner with the Universe in a dance, and I get to experience the wonderful places being in such company creates. Source leads the dance, and I merely follow that Lead, surrendering more and more deeply to the Guiding Hand, attentive and sensitive to even the lightest of nudges that is ever gently, directing me towards the next aligned step.

If you are seriously interested in taking a next step – come join me for a workshop here in Monteagle, Tennessee, steeped in the Living Reality of the Guiding Principles, you will be given the unique opportunity to experience the guiding principles in application as you surrender to a process designed to aid your own natural Awakening.